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WHITNEY v. WENMAN

No. 576.

198 U.S. 539 (1905)

25 S.Ct. 778

49 L.Ed. 1157

WHITNEY v. WENMAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1905.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert D. Murray, Mr. J. Aspinwall Hodge and Mr. George H. Gilman for appellant.

Mr. Edwin B. Smith for appellee, Security Warehousing Company, as to question of jurisdiction.

Mr. Louis F. Doyle for appellees, Wenman and others.

MR. JUSTICE Day, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is here upon the question of the jurisdiction of the District Court to entertain the action. The case in the court below was dismissed for want of jurisdiction, the demurrer having been sustained solely upon the ground that the bankruptcy act of July 1, 1898, as amended by the act of February 5, 1903, gave the court no jurisdiction. We are not concerned with the merits...

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